Take-Two hints at Grand Theft Auto V date

Publishing giant Take-Two Interactive, owners of Rockstar Games, have hinted that they will announce a new Grand Theft Auto this year, as they claim Duke Nukem Forever will make a profit.

Grand Theft Auto IV – everything is its fault

Although nobody from either Take-Two or Rockstar has ever spoken about Grand Theft Auto V publically, most analysts are convinced the game will be out next year – or spring 2013 at the very latest.

Take-Two has refused to confirm this, but when asked by an investor when they’d announce Grand Theft Auto V, they said they’d be revealing new games for release in their next financial year (April 2102 to March 2013) in the ‘coming months’.

Investors are worried that without Grand Theft Auto there will also be no profits for the company next year, but Take-Two is adamant that games like BioShock Infinite, the recently announced Borderlands 2 , and Spec Ops: The Line will do the business.

They’re equally confident about Duke Nukem Forever, which despite a critical panning and 14 years of waiting is still on course to make a profit. ‘We’re grateful to compete in a market where you can have a critical response that was disappointing, but can still make money,’ said CEO Strauss Zelnick.

He didn’t say exactly how much it has made, or sold though, and for the last three months Take-Two still ended up making a loss of $8.6 million, as sales fell from the previous year to $375.4 million.

As for Grand Theft Auto V, there’s still no hint as to where it will be set – with the last set of rumours suggesting it was based on some sort of parody of Hollywood . Itâs been a while since those rumours first surfaced, although that hasn’t stopped Grand Theft Auto making the news lately – with newspapers and police chiefs alike blaming the game for inspiring the ongoing London riots.That’s despite the fact of course that no Grand Theft Auto game has ever featured a riot (and it being three years now since Grand Theft Auto IV was released), but of course we’re sure a little detail like that isn’t going to stop a spot of scapegoating.